Burt’s Bees: Colourful lip care

Samstag, Juli 05, 2014

Coincidentially and punctual for the international kiss day on July 6 I have tinted lip products by Burt’s Bees all swatched out for you.

Despite my love for opaque, and matte lip colours, I do love my sheer and light lips for a change. I have always had a soft spot for Tinted Lip Balms, so I was really curious to see the new Lip Shimmer colours and Lip Glosses in person at the Beautypress Eventlast May.

Burt’s Bees philosophy just seems likeable and while I also received a few skincare products at the event - I wrote about a great exfoliatorbefore, and I still love the standard Lip Balms, they don’t leave that greasy film on the lips – I do wonder how the Tinted Balms perform in that perspective.

Burt’s Bees Tinted Lip Balm

Care for your lips with beautiful, sheer colour. Our new tinted balms give you a hint of colour with a soft, sweet flavor and natural ingredients that moisturize and condition your lips.

I bought the shade Hibiscus ages ago but I thought it fitting to have all three of them pictured together again now. Click the link to read my review for that single colour.

Red Dahlia has been on my wishlist for absolutely ages. I usually found the shelf sold out of this shade whenever I checked so I gladly picked that one up, together with Caramel Daisy, an ever so slightly nude tinged balm which works perfectly to prep the lips for any lipstick or to go over lipsticks to give it some shine. And yes, they are actual lip balms! I have never experienced a drying feeling so far.

The Tinted Lip Balms carry a soft sweet scent which I honestly love in these! I usually have great problems with sweetish scents in products as they make me more nauseated than any other scents. The caps close tightly, they will hardly open accidentally in your purse. On a positive sidenote: The twist up works well and has not given in in any of my shades so far.

Somewhat surprisingly, Hibiscus seemingly is the most pigmented colour of the bunch. But let me tell you, Red Dahlia is just perfect to touch up worn off lipstick throughout the day, or just give dry lips a pick me up. It’s my favourite for now and has been living in my purse the past few weeks. So, this is how they look in comparison to my naked lips:

Burt’s Bees Lip Shimmer

Want your lips to speak volumes? Give them a kiss of luminescent colour with our luscious Lip Shimmers. Shea Butter and antioxidant-rich Fruit Oils moisturise, nourish and soften lips naturally and lovingly. Now in two fresh and flattering new colors: Apricot and Grapefruit! • Nourishes and moisturises lips with Vitamin E and Beeswax• Enriches with Sunflower and Coconut Oils• Refreshing Peppermint flavour• Comes in 11 shimmering shades including new Apricot and Grapefruit

Well, let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way, shall we: Between picture one and two almost all of them quietly rolled off my desk there and got themselves mashed up. Due to summer heat they were fairly soft already, so there new residence is the fridge…let’s just ignore it, thanks!

I have four of the elven colours in the range here: A nude-pink (Peony), a brighter pink (Rhubarb) and two more sultry, darker shades which I had been eyeing up since the Event.

This lip colours aren’t specifically marketed as “balms” but they feel very similar to the Tinted Balms on the lips, slightly “heavier”, more lipstick-like. They come in a longer, slimmer tube and are easier to distinguish as their caps are colour coded (can I get a woop for that!). As you can tell by reading their product description they are indeed quite minty. Personally, I love mint scents and flavours, way more than sweet flavours!, but I can understand that they aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. The scent is lovely and strong but they don’t give you that tingly sensation you might know from lip “plumpers”.

Bam! The swatches surprise with a quite different sight compared to the Tinted Lip Balms – yes, it took me by surprise as well! The Lip Shimmers definitely work like lipsticks in my book, judging by pigmentation as well as longevity. As the name suggests they are fairly shiny on the lips, some with frosty shimmer, some with shimmer particles.

The first of which I found in Peony. And to be honest, it spoiled the essentially pretty colour for me. Such a frosty shimmer looks nice in the swatch, on the lips I find them dated. A surprise on the opposite side was Rhubarb. Curious as bloggers are supppsed to be, I picked up this rather bright pink shade and I must say I love it! The pigmentation is great, the colour is not too pink for my taste and even though there are fine golden particles in there, you gladly cannot feel them on the lips. Probably my favourite (summer)shade out of the bunch!

Fig and Plum I expected to be more on the purple side of the colour spectrum, but they are in fact brownish reds, which I do like to wear as well, to be fair. And how bold is Plum? Lovely! Less suited to “just slap on during the day” though.

Next to the great pigmentation and for me lovely minty scent I really only have one point of criticism to make: The twist up mechanism gave in in all four shades already! I believe you know whatI mean – you twist up to a certain point and when twisting back the mechanism just won’t grip anymore and you could just twist until there’s no tomorrow. You can gently push it back into the tube though, so no mess, but not the point of a twisty tube, eh.

I barely ever use Lip Gloss, so I only picked up the one shade that seemed most promising to me: Starry Night is a bold burgundy with sparkling shimmer particles.

Nowadays I sport an almost snobbish attitude towards glosses – yes I admit it! They barely are pigmented enough for me, are super sticky in return though etc. The Burt’s Bees glosses surprised in more than one way there, they are really opaque! The swatch below shows two layers, which applied absolutely fine. I felt Starry Night is on the average side of sticky, which, however, makes it last longer (well, you know the drill, glosses usually don’t survive food or drinks!). The consistency is rather firm, which is good – too gloopy-liquidy and it messes up easily, smudging outside the lipline etc.

Since the colour is interesting I am actually going to use this gloss. Me saying this about a lip gloss, who would’ve thought…

The product design with the honeycomb print on the applicator is just cute and well made. It is almost sad how I rarely use lip gloss…however: If I was a lip gloss fanatic, would I be willing to fork out 12€ for it? Mhm!